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Hello?
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Good morning, Art.
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Good morning, KJ. I have them both here for
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you. Have a good weekend.
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I need them out by 1015.
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1015. You got it. No problem. Thank you.
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Here's Jesse and mine.
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Good morning, Martin and Jesse.
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Good morning. Hi. Good morning.
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It is the KJ Today Show, your place for the
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positive vibes of pop culture, people to
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know, and pets. And Martin and Jesse Cove,
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you've both been on the show before, but
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never together. So are you guys excited to
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be together promoting another project?
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We're always excited to be promoting stuff
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together. So thank you.
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It's always good to be with my son.
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So we're talking this morning about Farhaven,
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which has been out, but it's about to make
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its debut on Sunday, April 14th on INSP.
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I wanted to start with you, Martin, and pose
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the question. This is a Western, and do you
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have any thoughts on why this particular
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genre still continues to appeal to us and
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we want more stories?
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Well, you know, thanks to Taylor Sheridan
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with I believe in, you know, he wrote this
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film 1883, which was on Paramount Plus. And
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then, of course, people people caught on
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to they caught on to to Yellowstone. But
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I think 1883 was brilliant because it was
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about the American drive coming across in
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wagon trains. And I just, you know, I analyze
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this all the time. We have a Western comic
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book coming out that we're trying to make
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into a series. And Jesse just did a movie
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called The Gunfighter's Deal about he makes
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a deal with the devil to be the fastest gun
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in the West. The genre itself is the first
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part of American cinematic heritage. In 1906.
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no, it was 1903, they made a movie called
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The Great Train Robbery. And it was a silent
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movie. But what was interesting was, is that
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I think all that silent era which set up
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the Western, all the people were still living
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in those days. So they'd go and they'd watch
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a movie about Tombstone, and it was 1910.
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And they were still around when there was
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the gunfight at the O.K. Corral just in 1881.
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So you had the same people, the farmers,
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the people, the ranchers, All those people
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were now experiencing silent movies. And
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the first movies we made were Westerns. You
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know, they weren't gangster movies or they
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weren't romantic movies. The first films
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that came out of Hollywood were Westerns.
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And in that silent era, all the people were
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still living who watched those films in Abilene,
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who watched them in, you know, Tucson. And
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they lived in the West as well. So I think
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Yeah, they were watching themselves on the
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silent screen and they adhere to it and they
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loved it. And the genre is all about, you
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know, American progress and, you know, the
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good things and the bad things that we did
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in the West and... It's also the height of
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drama.
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It's the height of drama and struggle.
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Yeah, I mean, it's endless. And romance.
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Yeah, I mean, you know, Jesse and I watched
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1883, and what the immigrants were given
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a paper back in Europe, and then we said,
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get free land in America. So they came here,
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and they had to entertain snakes, Native
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Americans, outlaws, tornadoes, and rivers.
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And those were five things that anybody who
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wanted land and wanted to live in the West
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had to entertain. And I think that's part
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of what we as Americans are about, endless
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adventure and conquering the unknown, you
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know.
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Yeah. Well, speaking of adventure, Jesse,
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I wanted to ask you, because there is a scene
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in Far Haven, and it seems like your gun
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work is pretty on point. You're rapid firing,
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and it's one of those really just intense,
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amazing scenes. Can you take us through filming
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that? Do you have a say, or are you getting
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the direction? And you need to be shooting
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your gun like this, Jesse.
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Well, I'm so glad you saw that. So I do train.
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I do a lot of firearms training and train
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over at Terran tactical, Terran Butler, who
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trained Keanu Reeves for all the John Wick
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movies and Tom Cruise and all everybody who's
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done every major shootout you've seen in
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the last 10 years. Uh, he's trained. I work
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with him, but when I was on set during that
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day, my scenes are with Bruce Boxleitner
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and that, that scene that you saw that's
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in the trailer, that was actually, that was
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actually basically improvised in the moment.
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My dad. He came, he was on set that day and
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he said to me, he's like, you know what,
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Jesse, why don't you, why don't you fan the
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gun? Which means when you rapid fire like
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that with your hand. And I did it and the
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director loved it and they wanted to get
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a special shot of that. So you have actually
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got to thank my dad for that, for that shot.
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Um, you know, those are the kinds of magical
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things that happen on set when we're working
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together.
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Oh, I love that. And you know, it's always
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such a joy to talk to each of you and the
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love and the celebration of your relationship
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always comes through. I wanted to switch
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over to another project that you did together,
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along with the KJ Today show. I am the kitty
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correspondent for Pet Pals TV. So I wanted
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to talk a little bit about your your dog
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Bubba and the episode of the Wizard of Paws
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and just kind of get an update on on how
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your three legged dog adjusted to getting
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a prosthetic. How cool was that?
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Oh, I'm so glad you brought that up. I'm
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actually looking at him right now. I just
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took him out. I just took him out to pee.
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He's he's doing so well. And, you know, you
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know, Derek over at Wizard of Paws, they're
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such an incredible organization. He literally
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is an angel. I mean, he literally rescues
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animals every day who are, you know, have
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missing limbs or, you know, um, have disabilities
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and, and, uh, he's just amazing. And, um,
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he made a wonderful prosthetic leg for Bubba
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and Bubba's doing well. He's thriving and
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he's, he's running around and, and, you know,
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I have, I have Derek to thank and wizarder
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paws and bionic pets to thank for, you know,
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him giving a bit of his freedom back. So
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I'm looking at Adam right now. He's a sweet
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little boy.
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Well, thank you for asking.
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He's also a pit bull. There's no bad pit
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bulls. There's just bad dog owners, parents.
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Thank you so much. Thank you so much for
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saying that. It's so true. We've got to change
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the narrative on pit bulls. They're wonderful
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dogs.
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Yes, they're just the best. I'm so in love
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with this dog. I never talked to my son in
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Los Angeles without needing to see that face
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on FaceTime. He's a precious, precious little
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dog. Precious.
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Oh, we could tell from the episode, Martin,
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that you are a proud grandfather of Bubba.
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And I was wondering, with your schedule,
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because you have been, I mean, obviously,
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we know you from the Karate Kid, but you
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have been so active all of your life. I mean,
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you've had so many roles. Were you able,
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when Jesse was growing up, were you able
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to have pets with that active lifestyle you
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had?
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This is a very interesting question. Was
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I able to have pets? Yeah, we had. We always
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had pets. We always had pets. I mean, we
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adopted, you know, I had a ranch at one time
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in Agoura, and it burnt down in 78, and I
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lost everything. And then we still had the
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dogs. The dogs were with us. And we moved
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into town. We had two, it was Cocker Spaniels,
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and They were mixed. There were two, three
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little Hepburn was her name, Tracy and Hepburn.
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And we moved into the Hollywood Hills. And
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the kids always had a dog around. It always,
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you always had Hepburn around. Yeah, we had
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two cats. And we always had pets. And even
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when we moved around different houses, we
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had pets. And now is the only time I don't
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have a dog. And I'm going to get an English
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bulldog. But I didn't. I didn't get a dog
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because I'm shooting all, you know, so long
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that I didn't want to have a dog in this,
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the apartment in Atlanta. And so as soon
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as I get back to the ranch in Nashville,
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I'm going to, you know, I'm going to get
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an English bulldog and a puppy. And I just
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want a dog that'll hang out with me. I don't
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want to do anything with it. I don't need
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it to do any special things. I just, I just
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want a lazy dog. A lazy dog. That's all I
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want is a lazy dog. I've had so many dogs.
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I had a dog in New York when I started acting.
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It was a, it was a, um, um, just his name
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is Paris. And I had a lot of German shepherds.
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He had a girlfriend named Samantha and we
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had 10 puppies. And it was like living in
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New York with 10 German shepherd puppies.
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And we had to give them away to different
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people. But my father was allergic to pets,
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so I never could have a pet growing up. So
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when I was like 23, I had my first dog.
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And Jesse, I heard you mention cats. I'm
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the same way. Someday I'm gonna get that
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like old dog that just needs a great home
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and just wants to lay on the couch and cuddle
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with me. But I've got, I work in rescue,
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so we've got seven cats at the house right
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now.
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And it's always great. Oh my God, you're
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amazing.
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It's always great to hear when someone says,
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don't forget the cats, right?
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In my pit bull, he gets along with my cat
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so well. They're like friends and you know,
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Like you said, you know, rescuing is the
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way to go. Like Bubba, my pitbull, he knows
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he's been saved. So he like is just such
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a grateful little boy and he's so happy.
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And, you know, it's really, I've put him
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through training and he's just amazing. And,
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you know, he was, he was a rescue from Mexico.
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Most people would say, you know, you know,
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three, like a dog from Mexico. Oh, we can't
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deal with that. And he, he just snuggles
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on my chest and he's just, he's, I can't
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imagine my life without him.
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I love it. Jesse, to go back to the last
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time we talked, we got into our nerdy obsessions.
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We talked Harry Potter. We talked Marvel.
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Yes, yes. But you brought up, I wanted to
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ask if there's any update. You brought up
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that you shot a pilot about a super soldier
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in the future. Do you have any updates on
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that? Because, man, I hope that that ends
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up being something we get to see.
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So they're actually funny enough, they just
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sent me a video the day before yesterday,
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because they've been editing it all this
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time. There's a lot of visual effects in
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this project. So it looks awesome. And they're
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going to be pitching it out to networks very
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soon. But I'm very excited how it looks.
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It's called Forsaken Mercenary. And it's
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a book series. So if you go online, you can
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pick up the book and you can read it. And
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I'm playing that character. Forsaken Mercenary,
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it's written by Jonathan Yanez. And you can
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go on Amazon, check out the books. It's really,
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really a great, great storyline. It's very
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exciting. And I can't, you know, hopefully
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things will go and it'll be great.
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Oh, I'm excited to hear that it's still moving
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in the right direction. Martin, do you share
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this love of sci-fi that Jesse has as well?
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Well, I enjoy, you know, Westerns have always
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been my favorite genre, but when a sci-fi
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film is done really with a lot of freshness,
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you know, like, for instance, like Road Warrior,
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you know, there was a touch of sci-fi into
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the original Road Warrior. And then as things
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progress, I like the combination of time
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travel. I really like, back when I was a
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kid, People say, what do you want to grow
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up? When I was little, I would say I want
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to be a time traveler, because I just loved
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going back, you know, to the days of Rome
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or back to the Alamo or just go to the future.
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And it was always, I always thought there
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was a profession called time traveling, you
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know, that someone would do. So time travel
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has always been the part of sci-fi that I
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like the most, when it's done well. You know,
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sometimes Star Trek would do it, You know,
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it was hard for a television show to really
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go back in time and do it well. But, you
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know, movies can go back in time. The, you
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know, the original, you know, time travel
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movie that was done back in 1960 with, I
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think it was, oh, I forgot his name. But
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the original Times, I think it was, the time
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tunnel and then it became a time machine.
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Yes. And it was it was the Australian actor.
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God, I can't remember. My brain's a little
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tired, but it was that I think it was in
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it. And in any case, those movies were terrific.
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And anything going back in time or forward.
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Rod Taylor. Rod Taylor. That's it. Yes. I
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love those films and I like I like the time
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travel movies the best. And when they introduce
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a concept where there's a time machine, today
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they make incredible, incredible sci-fi movies
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with effects that it's a pleasure to watch.
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It really is. I enjoy it almost as much as
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the Western.
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You can't see me sitting here, but I have
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a big TARDIS in my office. I'm also a fan
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of the time travel, Martin. I would love
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to continue chatting with you guys. It's
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always so wonderful to have both of you on
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the show. You bring such a positive vibe.
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Please keep us posted on the upcoming projects.
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And we'll be watching Sunday, April 14th
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is when Farhaven is going to hit INSP. Martin
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Kove and Jesse Kove, thank you so much for
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being here today.
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Thank you.
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You're welcome. Thank you.
